Update: Please see Pete Klein’s comment below for fresh dollar #s out of Hamilton County…<\/p>\n
The on-line journalism project ProPublica has compiled some detailed break-downs of how President Barack Obama’s stimulus money is being spent.<\/p>\n
Here in New York, a lot of the money is going to statewide programs, but counties across the state are receiving an average of $177 per capita in spending on their priority projects — everything from sewer upgrades to downtown beautification.<\/p>\n
The biggest beneficiary is Albany county, where spending tops $680 per person.<\/p>\n
But parts of the North Country are hoovering up a pretty good amount of cash as well: Jefferson County gobbled up $388 per person and Essex County is receiving $309 per person;<\/p>\n
Other counties lag significantly behind the statewide average (all numbers are per capita):<\/p>\n
Washington: $98.
Lewis: $107.
St. Lawrence: $135.
Clinton: $127 per person.
Herkimer: $160.
Warren: $163.
Franklin: $170. <\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe absolute loser in this picture seems to be Hamilton County which won just $9 per person from the stimulus package, for a total of $45,000.<\/p>\n
That money went to school districts in Indian Lake, Long Lake and the town of Wells.<\/p>\n